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Current clinical instructors for the Tenant Advocacy Program (TAP)—attorneys Marcia C. Peters and Lynn Weissberg—will be replaced on July 1 by instructors from the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center, a general practice law office in Boston that is maintained...
...TAP is one of five student practice organizations in existence at HLS. Its 45 members—along with support from Peters and Weissberg—represent residents of publicly funded housing before local housing authorities in cases of eviction and other issues...
...There truly is this clinical restructuring going on and we were not consulted,” said TAP co-chair Virginia B. Boyd. “I think students need to have some voice in making that decision...
Boyd, along with TAP co-chair Kevin M. Askew, met with Law School Vice Dean for Administration and Budget Howell E. Jackson on Tuesday to discuss the matter. Boyd said Jackson explained in the meeting that HLS is making an effort to reduce the number of outside attorneys advising student practice organizations, to save cash and to make use of excess capacity at the school’s Hale and Dorr office...
...statement to The Crimson, Jackson said the move is part of a larger effort to integrate clinical programs at HLS and will not alter the TAP program...